Good morning everyone or evening or afternoon whenever you're listening to

this. Maybe you're listening to this in another dimension in which case

teach me how to get there because I want to travel.

All right we're talking about the taro plant today which is actually if you're a

house plant fan it is an elephant ear. It is quite an ancient plant and

originated in Southeast Asia and it's believed at least to be one of the first

plants ever cultivated, which is pretty wild if you think about it. I mean that's a pretty

significant moment in our human history. Now Taro has a ton of different uses, but for the most part it's very popular from my experience in either

having Boba drinks which I absolutely love and I'm obsessed with or in Hawaii. Hawaii is the main commercial grower of

Taro. That tropical state alone it has over a hundred varieties of Taro and it's

extremely important part of Hawaiian cuisine. So let's discuss how to actually grow it and exactly what it is. All right? Here we go. What is Tarot root? It is a massive plant.

Mature Taro plants reach at least 3 to 6 feet tall and wide and a leaf alone can be about 3 feet tall,

which is pretty wild. At the base of the plant is one main

tuber, which will store nutrients to last the plant through winter. It has a

bunch of fibrous roots called corms that grow from the tuber and several smaller

tubers can also come out.

So it's a very interesting and unique plant that can be quite challenging to grow

if you are a new grower and also if you're in a climate that it doesn't like.

It needs about seven months to harvest and as you might imagine if it grows in Hawaii

there's a good chance that it is a tropical style plant and that's true for Taro. Now you need to get a

hold of some corms or tubers that is typically how people will start Taro but you can also buy Tarot starts that have actually started to sprout at a local

nursery if that is available to you.

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